Theme & Variations introduces a new topic each week, presenting a wide range of music associated with that theme. Drawn from a millennium of Western classical music, the selections are an eclectic mix of familiar favorites and rarities. Theme and Variations is produced locally in Discover Classical's studios by host Joe Law.
This month’s sampling of music by American composers continues with eight sets of variations by David Baker, Amy Beach, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Ulysses Kay, Libby Larsen, Lowell Liebermann and John Knowles Paine.
There’s more American music in store this week with sonatas by Samuel Barber, Amy Beach, Leonard Bernstein, Adolphus Hailstork, Vincent Persichetti and Alexander Reinagle.
This month’s sampling of music by American composers concludes with five concertos for a variety of solo instruments. The composers are Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Edward MacDowell, Walter Piston and Florence Price.
Travel back two centuries with three large-scale works from 1824 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Reicha and Franz Schubert.
